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The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think In Action

A leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant examines five professions—engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planning—to show how professionals really go about solving problems.

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User Review - maribou - LibraryThing

The longer it's been since I read this, the more I appreciate it. Possibly the most helpful work-related book I've ever read, and I found it very pleasant to read on the sentence level as well.Read full review

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A provocative and powerful view of practical knowledge. Schon argues that effective professionals do not simply follow the accepted body of knowledge corresponding to their field, but instead engage ...Read full review

Contents

The Crisis of Confidence in Professional Knowledge

3

From Technical Rationality to ReflectioninAction

21

Design as a Reflective Conversation with the Situation

76

Psychotherapy The Patient as a Universe of One

105

The Structure of ReflectioninAction

128

Reflective Practice in the ScienceBased Professions

168

Town Planning Limits to ReflectioninAction

204

The Art of Managing ReflectioninAction Within an Organizational Learning System